ssh-python 1.0.0rc1

libssh C library bindings for Python.

Bindings for libssh C library.

Installation

Binary wheels are provided for Linux (manylinux 2010), OSX (10.14 and 10.15 for brew Python), and Windows 64-bit (Python 3.6/3.7/3.8).

Wheels have no dependencies.

For building from source, see documentation.

pip install ssh-python

Pip may need to be updated to be able to install binary wheels.

pip install -U pip
pip install ssh-python

Quick Start

See command execution script for complete example.

Features

The library uses Cython based native code extensions as wrappers to libssh.

• Thread safe - GIL released as much as possible

  • libssh threading limitations apply - anything not supported in C is not supported in Python

• Very low overhead thin wrapper

• Object oriented

  • Memory freed automatically and safely as objects are garbage collected by Python

• Uses Python semantics where applicable

  • channel/file handle context manager support

  • channel/file handle iterator support

• Raises low level C errors as Python exceptions